CLO Virtual Fashion ships Marvelous Designer 9

3D clothing design tool gets support for GPU simulation, new brush-based subdivision system.

Friday, October 11th, 2019

SideFX unveils Solaris

Check out the powerful look dev, lighting and shot layout system due in Houdini 18 later this year, and the accompanying Karma renderer.

Thursday, August 1st, 2019

Autodesk launches 3ds Max Indie and Maya Indie

New 'limited-time' $250/year pricing for Max and Maya available to artists earning under $100k/year.

Wednesday, July 31st, 2019

Pixar ships RenderMan 22.6

Production renderer gets new Mari integration plugin, hdPrman plugin to render USD files, PxrCurvature for creating edge wear effects.

Monday, July 29th, 2019

Quixel ships Bridge 2019.2

VFX-focused update to the asset management tool for Megascans scan data adds USD support, plus new integration for Clarisse iFX.

Wednesday, July 10th, 2019

Intel unveils HdOSPRay and OpenVKL

New open-source tech to support interactive previews of USD files, and speed up volumetric renders.

Tuesday, June 4th, 2019

Pixar ships RenderMan 22.5

Update adds support for live displacement editing, SIMD acceleration for OSL. Houdini integration "completely rewritten".

Thursday, May 9th, 2019

Unity 2019.1 ships

Game engine gets new scene visibility controls, better GPU lightmap baking, support for AxF materials, OptiX render denoising.

Wednesday, April 17th, 2019

Autodesk unveils 3ds Max roadmap for future updates

Proposed features include new procedural layout tools, animation retargeting, automated retopology.

Wednesday, March 27th, 2019

Isotropix ships Clarisse iFX 4.0

Big update reworks the layout and rendering tool's lighting pipeline and adds USD support. See the key features and pricing changes here.

Friday, February 1st, 2019

The best Black Friday and winter 2018 deals for CG artists

Updated with a new batch of winter offers: save money on CG software and resources with these deals.

Friday, December 21st, 2018

Radeon ProRender updated for 3ds Max, Maya and Blender

OpenCL-based GPU renderer gets updated materials library. Blender version gets procedural UV mapping.

Saturday, November 17th, 2018

CLO Virtual Fashion ships Marvelous Designer 8

3D clothing design software gets handy new brush-based sculpting, 3D sewing and remeshing tools.

Tuesday, November 6th, 2018